Rep. Jose Felix Diaz

Emotional Support Animals; Defining the terms “emotional support animal” and “housing provider”; prohibiting discrimination in housing provided to a person with a disability or a disability-related need for an emotional support animal; prohibiting a health care practitioner from providing information regarding a person’s need for an emotional support animal without having personal knowledge of that person’s need for the animal; prohibiting the falsification of information or other fraudulent misrepresentation regarding the use of an emotional support animal, etc.

Emergency Reporting; Requiring the Division of Emergency Management to create a list of reportable incidents; requiring such list to include certain events; requiring a political subdivision to report incidents contained on the list to the State Watch Office; authorizing the Division of Emergency Management to establish guidelines a political subdivision must follow to report an incident, etc.

Disaster Volunteer Leave for State Employees; Reordering, revising, and providing definitions; revising conditions under which an employee may be granted leave under the Florida Disaster Volunteer Leave Act; specifying requirements and limitations, etc.

Automated License Plate Recognition Systems; Prohibiting homeowners’ associations from owning or operating an automated license plate recognition system, etc.

Teacher Salary Enhancement; Establishing a teacher salary enhancement allocation in the General Appropriations Act; requiring each school district to use the allocated funds to increase teacher salaries; authorizing school districts that meet the teacher salary requirements specified in the appropriations act to use any additional funds provided in the allocation for any lawful operating expenditure, etc.

Teacher Professional Learning; Expanding requirements for uniform core curricula and candidate assessment for teacher preparation programs; specifying that teachers may earn inservice points only once during a certain time period for any mandatory training topic not linked to student learning or professional growth; requiring district school boards to calculate a proportionate share of professional development funds for each classroom teacher; creating the Professional Education Excellence Resources (PEER) Pilot Program in specified counties, etc.

Relief of Jamiyah Mitchell, Latricia Mitchell, and Jerald Mitchell by the South Broward Hospital District; Providing for the relief of Jamiyah Mitchell, Latricia Mitchell, and Jerald Mitchell by the South Broward Hospital District; providing an appropriation to compensate them for injuries and damages sustained as a result of the negligence of the South Broward Hospital District; providing a limitation on the payment of attorney fees, etc. CLAIM: $795,000

Florida Talent Development Council; Requiring the council to submit, by a specified date, a report with recommendations related to the Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) program, or a similar program, to the Governor, the Legislature, the Board of Governors, and the State Board of Education; requiring the P-TECH program to incorporate secondary and postsecondary education with workforce education and work experience, etc.

Real Estate; Creating the "Florida Real Estate Management Corporation Act"; requiring a written contract with the Department of Business and Professional Regulation; prohibiting the management corporation from exercising certain authority assigned to the board of directors; providing that the board, rather than the department, receive complaints and investigate and deter the unlicensed practice of real estate, etc.

Workforce Education; Revising the workforce education programs that school district career centers are authorized to conduct, etc.